DETROIT (1/5/07) – There was no rust on the Raiders’ skates as the Colgate University women’s ice hockey team cruised to a 4-1 victory over Wayne State on Friday, Jan. 5 at City Sports Center Arena.

 

Freshman Beth Rotenberg (Toronto, Ont.) collected two goals, her first collegiate tallies, to pace Colgate which extends its win streak to four and improves to 8-9-1 on the season.

 

Senior Tara French (Truro, N.S.) got things started for the Raiders with a crisp slap shot just inside the blue line that went over the blocker of Tiffany Thompson at 12:55 of the first frame.  Classmate Carly McNaughton (Lethbridge, Alta.) was credited with the feed to French.

 

McNaughton increased the lead to 2-0 with a power-play tally with just 10 seconds remaining in the first period with help from freshmen Marissa Dombovy (Webster, N.Y.) and Evan Minnick (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).  Minnick collected the puck in the corner and sent it up to the middle where Dombovy flipped it towards the net where Thompson stopped the shot but couldn’t maintain control.  The puck rebounded back out onto the ice where McNaughton snuck it under the cross bar.

 

Rotenberg padded Colgate’s lead to 3-0 with the only goal of the second stanza, with her first career goal.  Sophomore Ruth Fish (Dewitt, N.Y.) sent a pass through the crease to Rotenberg who was waiting on the opposite side of the paint.  Rotenberg pushed through the defender in front of her and slide the puck across the goal line at 13:06.

 

Tegan Schroeder was able to put the Warriors on the scoreboard at 13:54 of the third with help from Brandi Frakie and Tina Vanderhoeve.  Schroeder went top shelf on sophomore Elayna Hamashuk (Nepean, Ont.) who was being screened by the Wayne State defenders.

 

Just under three minutes later Rotenberg sealed the win for Colgate with her second marker of the game.  Dombovy picked up her second assist when she delivered a cross-ice pass to freshman Nicole McDonald (Calgary, Alta.).  McDonald fired a shot that rebounded back out where Rotenberg was able to put her stick on the puck and send it to the back of the net at 16:43.

 

Hamashuk made some great glove saves, playing in her fist contest since November 24.  She turned away 26 total shots, as Wayne State out shot Colgate 27-22.

 

The two squads will face off again tomorrow, Saturday, January 6 at 2 p.m.  The game will take place at Taylor Sportscomplex in Detroit.